334 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



188i i— Greene, Albert R. Shell fisheries of Rhode Island : public hearing by the 

 joint special committee of the general assembly. < Providence Jonrual, 

 Providence, Rhode Island, March 5, 1891. 



1834 j — Hoek, P. P. C. Oyster Culture. Prize essay issued in connection with 

 the Great International Fisheries Exhibition. London, Clowes & Sons, 

 1881, 36 pp., 3 plates. 



1884 k — Hovey, Horace C. Oyster fanning in Connecticut. <^Proceedings of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, thirty-second 

 annual meeting, held at Minneapolis, August, 1883. New York, 1884, pp. 

 460-466. 



1884 1— Hudson, William M. The shell fisheries of Connecticut. <Traii8action8 

 of the Fish-Cultural Association, thirteenth annual meeting. New York, 

 1884, pp. 124-146. 



Considers tlie relations existing between the State and the public and private oyster 

 areas in Long Island Sound within the boundaries of Connecticut, with especial refer- 

 ence to legislation affecting the oyster industry. 



1884 m — Lockwood, Samuel. An oyster on a crab. <^ American Naturalist, Phila- 

 delphia, February, 1884, vol. xviii, p. 200. 



Describes a female Cancel- irroratus (Say), one-fourth full-grown, and with the caudal 

 flaps distended with eggs, carrying attached to the right side of its carapace an oyster 2J 

 inches in length and 2 inches in width. 



1884 u— Pike, R. G.; Hudson, W. M., and Woodruff, G. N. Third Report of the 



Shell Fish Commissioners of the State of Connecticut to the General 



Assembly, January session, 1884. Middletown, Conn., 1884. 8"^, 40 pp. 



Contains the official designation of the natural beds under the exclusive jurisdiction 



of the State, and refers to the general condition of the oyster industry of Connecticut 



in 1883. 



1884 o— Puysegur, M. On the cause of the greening of oysters. With a supple- 

 mentary note on the coloration of the blood corijuscles of the oyster, by 

 John A. Ryder. <Report U. S. Fish Commission, 1882. AVashington, 

 1884, vol. X, pp. 793-805. 



Also reviews much of the existing litei'ature relative to this subject. This first part of 

 this article is translated from Notice sur la Cause du Verdissement des Huitres. Paris, 

 Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1880. 8°, 11 pp., 1 plate. 



1884 p — Rumpff, Carl. The oyster as a popular article of food in North America. 



<r)ulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1884. Washington, 1884, vol. iv, pp. 



356-358. 

 Translated by Herman Jacobson from Circular No. 3, 1884, of the German Fishery 



Association, Berlin, April 4, 188i. 

 1884 q— Ryder, John A. On a new form of filter or diaphragm to be used in the 



culture of oysters in ponds. <^Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1884. 



Washington, 1884, vol. iv, pp. 17-31. 

 The filter described consists of barriers of sand confined between gunny cloth and 



galvanized wire cloth, which works quite successfully. This article also describes the 



iiielliods of constructing the oyster ponds or claires. 



1884 r — Ryder, John A. Journal of operations on the grounds of the Eastern 

 Shore Oyster Company, on Chincoteague Bay, near Stockton, Md., during 

 the summer of 1883. <Bullctin U. S. Fish Commission, 1884. Wash- 

 ington, 1884, vol. IV, pp. 43-47. 



This journal contains a daily record of the work, the results of which were published 

 in Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1883, vol. in, pp. 281-291, in a paper entitled 

 "Bearing oysters from artificially fertilized eggs, together with notes on pond culture." 

 See 1883 aj. 



